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Speaker 3: Welcome in Brian Logan below the past breakup being to
talk some BYU Cougar Football was that below.
Speaker 4: I'm uh, I don't know, man, I'm confused. He's supposed
to go be twenty minutes ago. I'm gonna be here
Texas taking run. I don't know what's going on, but
let's get to it. Let's get to it, let's look
let into it. Hey, Hey, you can asked me questions.
I'm answering, and then I hear I hear program in
my ear and I'm like, what are we doing right now?
We're hey, Hey, I'm hungry I didn't delayed. I told
my I told my golfriend number two like like they
come in fifteen minutes. You know what I'm saying. Like anyway,
it's always good to hear your voice. Man, It's always
a blessing. I love you and I would do almost
anything for you. And when I mean almost, I mean
I probably want to give with my kids for you, Britt,
anything else.
Speaker 3: I would do that love and appreciate you below below. Hey,
this season, it's been a special one. Twenty twenty five
has been special. It's an eleven and two season. Now,
we've had many eleven and two seasons. Well not that day,
you know, but we've had double digit win seasons. You've
had You've been a part of that. An eleven and
two season in two thousand and nine. I was a
part of a couple in six oh seven. There's been
the ninety six season was a tremendous season, fourteen and one,
two thousand and one, there was a twelve win season.
Speaker 2: Look, I feel like this is one of the best seasons.
Speaker 3: In BA football history because of the strength of schedule,
and you made it to a big twelve championship game.
Speaker 2: How do you see it?
Speaker 3: How magical. How special was this season for the fans,
for the media, for the players.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think the fact that we went
to a championship game, a conference championship game, and like
a power for conference championship game is what makes it special.
The other seasons, you know, some of those I can't,
I can't relate to. I was like three. I know,
I know you like tidy, but I was too I
was too young. I was too young to be aware.
But I think I think the difference of if you
were to remove that the conference championship this year, I
think that the talent that b YU currently has on
the roster versus the talent that they played and defeated,
and how they won games as far as complete blowouts,
as far as coming back and being on the road
and certain situations that were really critical in each you know,
at certain points of the season. I think that's what
makes it really special. You know, Uncle Uncle Be who
I love and adore more than anything. When I'm with
him on our pregame, post game or whenever you're doing
shows on by U TV, you know, I really get
a lot of insights and you know, he put from
from him and when he was, you know, when he
played and that eighty four championship team. And what's interesting
is they didn't know that they want that they won
a championship game until it was over, right, So there
was a different type of voting system and structure back
then and and this season and where we're at right
now in the modern day is like you win and
you're in, or if if if you win and and
this team loses, then you're in. So there's a lot
more I think pressure on these.
Speaker 5: Teams nowadays when heading into certain games based off of
certain situations, and I think that brings so much more excitement,
right like, like there's so much more anticipation and so
much more awareness and so much more I think fans
being engaged.
Speaker 4: And I think when you when you think about all
those things I just said versus you know, figuring it
out if you're if you're the conference championship at the
last game, I think it carries a little bit more weight,
you know. And that's just that's just my opinion. I'm
not taking anything away from from those teams or whatnot,
but I think I think it's supperate to win in
the modern era. That is, you know, in previous eras,
especially with especially the areas like you and I.
Speaker 2: Planed it, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: It's a tougher schedule back to back to back, but
they also have more resources. They also recruit on have depth,
a little bit more depth in what we had, et cetera.
So you take it all into account. You know that
two thousand and nine season was a special one. There's
no doubt. You have one of the best victories in
BWA football history number three Oklahoma at Cowboys Stadium in Orlington.
BA wasn't able to revive really of that magic in
the Big Twelve Championship unfortunately, but that was a great win.
You lost to Florida State, lost to TCU, but then
you finish off the season with a win over number
twenty two Utah in ot That was a great win
at Lavelle Edwards. And then you knocked off number sixteen
team in the country, Oregon State in the Vegas Ball
was at that game.
Speaker 2: It was a great game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't really count that win against Oklahoma anymore
like special. It's not. I mean, in the moment, okay, okay,
I said that was that came across that. Let me
take a step back in the moments at that time,
it was amazing. I can't thank you know, baby Jesus
enough for putting me in that situation and allowing me
to be a part of that, uh and a part
of you know, this program at that at that time,
I loved when we landed, how there was man so
many people waiting for us on the tarmac and in
the airport.
Speaker 6: I loved the videos that I've seen, and yes, this
is the beginning of videos on phones, but I love.
Speaker 4: Seeing how you know, there there were students and they
were like rushing and celebrating in in intersections you know,
by the school. I loved, I loved, I love seeing
all that, and so it was it was a great
moment moment like for anybody that was involved, from athletes
to fans, to staff, et cetera, alumni, et cetera. But
at the end of the day, they finished like eighty five,
you know, so so to us it's like, well, how
to me? It' second? Well, how good were thing?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 4: And this goes into a deeper conversation of what we're
dealing with right now. You know, all these teams that
are ranked preseason, and then we go through the season,
and a lot of them aren't ranked, a lot of
them aren't as good as we thought they were. And
then you have other teams that were never ranked and
weren't part of the discussion, and then towards the end
they are. So yeah, it was it was good. It
was a great win. I loved the environment. And man,
that was my first game as a D one athlete,
coming from a junior college and to have my first
game be in a professional and a pro NFL stadium.
I mean, I couldn't ask for anything, and it's a
better storyline. But you know, at the very end of
the day, I think we can talk about this too
with like Miami, right, I don't think when b YU
beat Miami, I don't even know if they finished or
maybe they were the only ones you know that finished
that we're in the top you know, ten or top five.
I mean that's something that that you know, you guys
get are great great Gregor Bell when it comes to
teams that were ranked in the beginning of the season
and or the highest teams that were ranked at b
YU won in its history, and where did they finish,
because I think we have to take that into consideration,
which obviously the college football Playoffs is doing that right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean Miami in nineteen ninety only had two losses.
Just so you know. They lost to b Yu, who's
a good team that year.
Speaker 3: Obviously in nineteen ninety and they lost to number six
Notre Dame. By they finished ranked.
Speaker 2: I believe it looks like number three in the nation.
Speaker 4: They they that's the best way they they they ended up.
Speaker 3: Number three in the nation because they had well, they
had two losses. They ended up beating number three Texas
in the Cotton Bowl that year and they destroyed them
forty six to three in fact, So that's the best
way remember by you. In nineteen ninety they they beat
my they beat Miami. They lost the Oregon number. I
want to say, I don't know if Oregon was ranked
at that time. They ended up losing to Hawaii late
in the season, that was at Hawaii, and then they
lost to Texas A and M in.
Speaker 2: The bowl game.
Speaker 3: Uh so they started hot, they didn't end so so
well at the end of the season. They got the
pride cycle. They didn't stay humble, they didn't.
Speaker 4: Stay hungry, or maybe they had injuries.
Speaker 3: In the.
Speaker 4: Sea. I think I just think that, you know, to
answer your question, you know, more more directly, if we're
if we're using the same standards now and we're going
off with the standards and the criteria of the College
Football Playoff Committee, which is definitely flawed and there's definitely
a conspiracy there as a side note, but if we're
using that those metrics and that criteria, you have to
take into account where the team finished, you know, not
just where they're ranked when you beat them, And from
what you just said, I would say I would say
that that's probably the best win in BYU history now
at the moments, at the moment, you know, I think
we can have an argument that when when BYU played
them in in the nineties versus the moment of when
we played them, you know, in two thousand and nine
Oklahoma in two thousand and nine. For sure.
Speaker 3: Well, it's it's been an awesome season. It's been a
magical season, no doubt about it. What were your preseason
expectations and how many wins did they get?
Speaker 2: Get over that preseason expectation?
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean the goal that I set for
these guys was just make it to a bowl game.
And I've been you know, two thousand and ten, it
was my senior year and we started winning. For we
made history in a negative way, and we were scrapping
and clawing just to get the seniors to a bowl game,
to to to finish the season off strong. Yes, for
you know, the freshmen and for recruiting and all the
stuff that that that comes with with wins and losses.
But our sole focused at that point was to get
to make sure the seniors, like, let's do it for
the seniors. The seniors came on board as freshman's and
they have the same blood, sweat and tears and dedication
and uh, you know that that you guys have right now,
and so it's it's it's it's on us to to
you know, make sure that they that they end their careers,
you know, right, because because the latter years that they
went through everything and that they were part of the program,
they sent the seniors off right, and that you know,
big shout out to Matt Marshall. He's the one that
gave that gave that speech. So I appreciate him for that.
And that was my mindset was for this year. I
mean this year especially after after well prior to Jake,
I was like, Man, if we don't go to a
conference championship game, I'm quitting by u TV being better
than that called me. I'm not talking to nobody. It's
not doing no media nothing. I hate this team. H
That was my expectations. Then then when Jake left, I
was like, okay, Fellows, let's just make it to a
bowl game. And that was my expectations going in. And
so as the season started to unfold, I really realized
that Jake wasn't the most important piece of this team
and specifically the offense. And I think he has to
give a lot of credit to obviously Bear and him
being able to perform at the level that he he
he did as a true freshman, but even more so,
you got to give credit to a Rod and for
for him to be able to figure out what his
analyzed his situation, analyze the pieces that he as and
to be able to put a game plan in for
the offense week in and week out, to put them
in in positions to be successful and to execute and
and and he did that. So you know, I love
Colone to death and and I'm you know, happy and
grateful and that he won Coach of the Year for
the Big twelve. But I think it should be a
Rod even though you know he's he's the offensive court,
and I think it should be a Rod for for
everything that he's had to go through.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, let's talk about that for a moment here.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of haters out there that they' that
don't think a Rod is a good offense corner. They
want to go, they want to part ways with him,
they want to get rid of them. Like, what's your reaction,
what's your rebuttal to those haters that just don't think
a Rod put together a good enough offense?
Speaker 2: Uh? This year and then and in prior years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it reminds me of of some of my ex girlfriends,
Like you know, I, you know, like there's a million
things that I do right, and then as soon as
there's one thing that I do wrong, that's not that's
not even on the level of being like being able
to like like being able to break up with somebody
break up with me is like, oh, I'm sorry, like
I forgot to tell you I was going to be
fifteen minutes late, Like my bad, But what about the
zillion other things I've done right? I feel like it's
like that you know, it's it's it's oh, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, I'm hey, this is a little therapy for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But but but but think about that, like like okay,
being being real, being real, right, and really comparing the
analogy analogies. When you're so good at something and you
constantly hit that mark, it's expected that you're going to
continue to hit that mark. And so when you do
one thing wrong, when you call a bad play or
you call a bad game, all that, like that, because
you didn't hit that mark, it's so below and because
because you were hitting that mark at such a consistent level,
that gap of not hitting that mark at one time
compared to the consistency of greatness, it's so drastic that
that that their brains turned to, oh my gosh, we
have to fire because they're not used to it, right,
They're not used to they're not used to that that
low of a performance. And I think fans and analysts
we have to understand that, and especially with with with
b YU and the church and the Gospel, we have
to understand that nobody's perfect. And you know, the grass
is not greener on the other side. It's not, it's
just that's just a simple fact that in life. And
so I think when you when you look at the
macro perspective, and you and you look at the full
body of war from when a Rod came on board
to where he's at now. The number one thing as
fans that we want to that that we should judge
him off is not a bad game or a play call.
It's it's it's growth. Now, I think that's that's in
everything in our lives, right in every area of our
lives and especially relationships and whatnot. It's it's growth. And
you look at when he stepped on the campus, all
the way until now this very moment that you and
I are talking, Man, the growth is there. Look at
the stats, look at the data. You could be extremely
objective when you when you go that route and not subjective.
The subjective comes when it's because our feelings are hurt,
because we're mad, you know, maybe somebody put a little
money on something, you know what I mean. Like, there's
a lot of different variables of why we get mad
from a subjective standpoint, but being objective and looking at
the data and looking at how many quarterbacks he's developed
and he's sent to the league, and how many recruits
that he's he's brought on and in the games that
he's won. I mean, come on, man, look at the
last couple of years. These guys only lost like what
three games? Four games? Like gid I get out of
here with that.
Speaker 3: It's pretty crazy. Man, A Rod deserves his flowers. He's
a he's a Broils Awards semi finalist. He may be
a finalist for all I know. I haven't updated, I
haven't take taking a look at it recently, but give
the man as flowers.
Speaker 2: Man, I don't know.
Speaker 3: There has never been an offensive coordinator ever at b
YU that has been heralded that has been liked at
at at b a U. It's the most it's more
difficult than being the head coach at b YU, I
think is the o C.
Speaker 2: Would you agree with that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's why and that's why I said, and
that's why that's I said, respectfully, a Rox, you get
the get the get the coach of the year for
the big conference. I know I know that shing it happened,
but you like are literally making my point. You know
when when I when I said that, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 2: You know, they bring up Doug Sculville from like the seventies.
Come on, now, you know.
Speaker 4: That's the that's the first time I heard that.
Speaker 3: Next, no ask ask uncle be about Doug Scolvi Like this,
text uncle bib, Hey, who's the greatest offensive coordinator b
A football history? And and he's probably gonna he may
he may say Doug Sclville. I think he may say
Doug s Goville. Everyone says it. He's only there for
four years, bro, four years and it was early on
in the uh in the Lavelle era.
Speaker 2: So yeah, pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Instead of texting that, I'm a tweet him and then.
Speaker 3: I want to out he was the greatestsociate And has
there ever been an offensive coordinator that b au fans
have actually liked and heralded?
Speaker 2: I think that's uh, that's.
Speaker 3: The question of the offseason because I don't think anyone's
gonna be happy.
Speaker 2: Uh ever, anyway, uh be low. Best way to support you?
What you do? How you do it? Brother? We gotta
get you into an Odeon menswear suit? What do you say? Brother?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Is it gonna be free? Is it free?
Speaker 3: I got you?
Speaker 4: Hey, if it's free, let's let's let's let me do it. Bro,
Let's let's do it, you know. I uh, man, I like,
I tell you guys a little time. You know, I
don't I don't need. Just pray for me, that's all.
Just just pray for me.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm, I'm highly highly blessed and favored and anointed.
And I don't know why, you know, I continue to
get the blessings that I get in my life. I'm
definitely the person, the last person on this earth that
that deserves it. But I appreciate, you know, God for
putting me in the situation and and just being able
to be a part of a historic program and in
a program that aligns with my faith even though I'm
not a part of it, and the love and appreciation
that I get. So that's all I ask, man, Just
just pray for me. I tell you run all the time.
I'm like, man, just put me in your top five
listen to night. That's all I asked. You know this
just one night. You don't gotta do it consistently, but
just when you think about me, or when you see
a tweet, or when you see me on TV or
you hear me on radio, just just prady for me.
You can get some some small I'm like I'm talking
about one sentence, you know, five eight words.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Look, every time I go to the temple, I'll put
Belo's name in the prayer role, so he makes the
top five. There you go, bro, Hey, hey, there we go.
That's why. Hey, that's why, that's why. That's why I
got these blessings overflowing. You know in my life. I
appreciate you guys.
Speaker 2: Much love to you.
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